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The Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) is currently training communities, institutions and officials to meet the challenges of climate change through effective climate risk management. In particular, ADPC is supporting DRR and CCA measures in coastal and river basin areas of Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The training, which took place 6-9 April 2015, was meant to benefit agriculture and environmental sector officials to build resilience of agro-ecosystems against climate and disaster risks associated with climate change. Read more.

This article reviews the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) (SFDRR), and provides an analysis of how climate change is addressed in the SFDRR and the potential implications for dealing with climate change within the context of DRR. The authors argue that the issue of climate change could have been used to further promote an all-vulnerabilities and all-resilience approach. Link to article.

Efforts to reduce the risks and impacts of natural hazards present potential opportunities to mainstream ecosystem services into decisions. This special feature published by the National Academy of Sciences presents experiences of applying a "knowledge co-production approach" based on social-ecological systems research, to develop an integrated understanding of the natural hazard and its drivers and impacts, among a broad range of stakeholders. Four case studies are discussed. Link to publication.